Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.
On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote:
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>
> Try #2 :/
Try #3 (no sleep last night - trees and power lines down across the
property in last nights storms) Sorry.
This time I remembered to escape those brackets. Please test this - I
can only check the script works, can't check if mmaker likes it.
>
> Ignore the above - that echo won't reliably create multiple lines,
> printf will.
>
> Try this which will:-
echo "
#!/bin/bash
# .fmenu
mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
mmaker fluxbox -f
printf "\t[submenu] \(My
Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]" >>
~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu
>
>
> The above will:-
> create a script ~./.fmenu
>
> Running ~/.fmenu will:-
> mv your existing ~/.fluxbox/menu to ~/.fluxbox/menu-YYYYmmdd-hh:mm
> create a new ~/.fluxbox/menu
> append your submenu to it
>
>
> If you want to remove the last [end] tag from the main menu (as
> suggested by Linux Fan try this:-
echo "
#!/bin/bash
# .fmenu
mv ~/.fluxbox/menu{,-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)}
mmaker fluxbox -f
sed -i 's/\[end]//g' ~/.fluxbox/menu;sed -i '/^\s*$/d' ~/.fluxbox/menu
printf "\t[submenu] \(My
Menu\)\n\t[include]\(~/.fluxbox/usermenu\)\n\t[end]\n\t[separator]" >>
~/.fluxbox/menu" > ~/.fmenu
Someone more awake than I can probably make that double invocation of
sed into a single call.
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More coffee needed...
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